Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of softstory's creator-research and brand-matching platform and related services (the "Service") operated by Schalumov Corporation Limited, operating as softstory ("we", "us", "our"). By accessing or using the Service you agree to these Terms.

1. The Service

softstory provides tools to discover, evaluate, and work with online content creators, including the retrieval and display of publicly available statistics and metadata about YouTube channels and videos, and analytics and matching features derived from that data.

2. YouTube API Services

The Service uses YouTube API Services. By using the Service you also agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy. We access only publicly available YouTube data through the YouTube Data API and do not access any private YouTube account data. Your use of any YouTube content or data surfaced through the Service is subject to YouTube's own terms.

3. Eligibility and accounts

The Service is provided to authorised business users and clients. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any credentials and for all activity under your account.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use the Service in violation of any law or of the YouTube Terms of Service or Google Privacy Policy;
• attempt to access data you are not authorised to access, or to scrape, resell, or redistribute YouTube data except as permitted by YouTube's terms;
• interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Service;
• reverse engineer or attempt to extract source code except as permitted by law.

5. Intellectual property

The Service, excluding third-party content and YouTube data, is owned by softstory and protected by applicable laws. YouTube content and data remain the property of their respective owners and of YouTube / Google.

6. Data and privacy

Our handling of data, including data obtained through YouTube API Services, is described in our Privacy Policy.

7. Third-party services

The Service relies on third-party providers (including Google / YouTube, Google Firebase, Airtable, and AI providers). We are not responsible for the availability, content, or practices of third-party services.

8. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose and accuracy of data. Statistics and analytics are provided for informational purposes and may not be complete or current.

9. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, softstory will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits or data, arising from your use of the Service.

10. Termination

We may suspend or terminate access to the Service at any time for any breach of these Terms.

11. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by updating the "Last updated" date above. Continued use of the Service constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

12. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of Cyprus, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

13. Contact

Questions about these Terms can be sent to legal@softstorymedia.com.